My academic research concentrates on mathematical cryptology. I was a leader of the NESSIE project, a European project to assess cryptographic primitives for future possible standardisation. I was also a member of the committee which set up ECRYPT project, a European Network of Excellence in Cryptology consiting of 35 European organisations working in cryptology. Some of my publications are listed below. Please note that the copyright usually belongs to the relevant publisher.

S.R.Blackburn, S. Murphy and J. Stern, Weaknesses of a Public-Key Cryptosystem based on Factorizations of Finite Groups in Advances in Cryptology -- EUROCRYPT 93, LNCS 765, pp. 50-54, 1994. Note that this paper is similar to the Journal of Cryptology 1995 paper above.